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Every St. Louis neighborhood is a chosen place to live, raise children, and grow old.
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OUR MISSION
Invest STL facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-Black racism.
We’re Shifting the St. Louis Region’s Approach to Neighborhood Development
Click to explore our various investment areas:
NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTING
Direct investments in neighborhoods.
We generate trust-based, community-driven, and place-based investments focused on nurturing neighborhood leadership and power, growing capacity and sustainability of neighborhood anchors, supporting resident-driven neighborhood planning, green-lighting, catalytic real estate developments, and bolstering hyper local economies.
SYSTEM INVESTING
Investing in the local community + economic development system.
We foster the creation of sustainable systems and structures from local government through regional intermediaries and networks by investing in their capacity and shaping practices that advance equitable neighborhood development.
INFLUENCE POLICIES + DECISION-MAKING
Convening thought leadership and testing innovative ideas to influence policies and decision-making.
We identify, try, evaluate and facilitate potential solutions to systemic issues facing predominantly Black neighborhoods.
REFRAME NARRATIVES
Reframing narratives to shift our collective understanding and awareness of St. Louis residents and neighborhoods.
We replace the current, prevailing narratives of predominantly Black neighborhoods with narratives that inspire pride, engagement, personal agency, collaboration, community accountability, and public will by amplifying residents’ stories from the block to the world and challenging how media and other regional storytellers frame these communities.
Invest STL generates trust-based, community-driven and place-based investments.
Our 20 Year Theory of Change focuses our resources and energy to build a thriving ecosystem of leaders, organizations, and neighborhoods to deliver on this vision in one generation and sunset Invest STL by 2042.
WORK WITH US!
Policy Director
Invest STL is expanding its team and hiring its first Policy Director. The position focuses on Invest STL’s policy piloting and advocacy agenda and leads our Policy Design + Activation Team, who convene thought leadership and identify, try, evaluate and facilitate innovative ideas as potential interventions for systemic issues facing predominantly Black neighborhoods. We are seeking an experienced leader in community and economic development-related applied research and model building to direct and steward the next phase of our policy work.
Applications will be accepted through October 4, 2026.
